LOTS OF FACTS

• In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
• Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
• In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
• Every person has a unique tongue print.
• Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
• Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
• Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
• About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
• You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
• An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
• Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
• Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
• The average person is half an inch taller upon rising in the morning.
• A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at up to 600 m.p.h.
• Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
• A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
• In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
• The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
• Bubble gum contains rubber.
• You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
• The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
• Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
• The world population of chickens is about equal to people.
• Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
• In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
• A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
• About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it to make more money.
• It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
• Some toothpaste brands contain antifreeze.
• Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
• Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled "Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden"...and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
• The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
• Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
• Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
• Coca-Cola was originally green.
• It is impossible to lick your elbow.
• The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
• Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
• The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
  
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
• Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.
• Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
• There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Mosquitoes have teeth.
• Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
• Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
• When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
• 27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
• Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.

WEIRD

• Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
• John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
• Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
• John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
• Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
• Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
• Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
• Both Presidents were shot in the head.
• Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
• Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.
• Both were assassinated by Southerners.
• Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.
• Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
• Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
• John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839. Lee
• Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
• Both assassins were known by their! three names.
• Both names are composed of fifteen letters.
• Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford.'
• Kennedy was shot in a car called a 'Lincoln' made by Ford.
• Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.
• Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.
• Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials! And here's the
• kicker:
• A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
• A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.